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Excellent! Microsoft better wake up or the slide will continue and accelerate.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Is this something that is going to be (figuratively) stuck in the back of the store and you have to ask for it to get it? Or, is it going to be (again figuratively) prominently displayed and agressively marketed? Inquiring minds want to know. It will be interesting if it is the latter. I frankly expect the former.
The “Fierce Fawn” hasn’t worked so well for me as the “Dapper Drake” did.
It lost internet connectivity somehow.
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I'm not thrilled with certain aspects of it so I'm wiping it and will be loading Simply Mepis 6.5.0.2 next week.
Among the things that I didn't like was the whole "nanny-distro" thing where root access is not granted to any account unless using sudo. I was able to give root a password and tell Ubuntu to let root login...but still...kind of a pain. It also was a struggle to get it to use WPA for my wireless....after I spent an hour getting my Broadcom mini-PCI board to work.
I did like the apps that came with it and the Add/Remove wizard was quite nice as well.
All in all I think this is a good move by Dell. Ubuntu won't be as easy for some as an OEM Winders install...but it will expose it to a LOT more folks.
I might buy a Dell laptop as a first step, and dump Microshaft Windows XP on my current Thinkpad when they start announcing no more support for it.
Vista is not an option. Ever.
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.Please, just tell people to use KDE.
So what type of Word processing, spreadsheet and browser programs does Ubuntu have built in?
ROFL, been a rough year (or two!) for you guys creating all the countles threads that claimed it already happened. Still hasn't apparently, and when it does, who really cares.
I downloaded Ubuntu on an old computer. I liked it except for the fact that Apple doesn’t support Quicktime and iTunes for it. And WMV from windows. Being that I like watching movie trailers and various humorous videos online, this is really a deal breaker for me. But those are really the only problems I have with it.
I’m not impressed with Ubuntu in the least...I just simply don’t need the training wheels. Ubuntu doesn’t even come close to making my top 10. Glad to see Dell offering a choice though. Any of you OSSers tried PC Linux OS?? I’m liking it alot. It offers a nice blend of easy installation, tweakability, and doesn’t make the assumption that you’re losing two drops of sweat with every mouse click and constantly re-assuring you that everything is going to be okay.
This will last maybe six months.
You know, I don’t want Linux pre-loaded...I just want the option to buy a computer sans-OS, and load whatever the hell I want to on it, without paying the Microsoft tax. Linux users don’t need pre-loaded machines, as they tinker with their computers so much.
My question is, will it actually be cheaper than a Windows version? Dell gets paid to put a lot of crapware in a Windows system, cutting its costs quite a bit. What will the price of a Linux system be without all the crapware to drive it down?
BTW, Microsoft had to be forced to stop its monopolistic licensing practices in order to allow this. It used to be that Dell would have had to charge for a Windows license anyway for each Linux box shipped. It’s terms like this that killed OS/2.